[Geysers] history of Yellowstone hot spot

[Tim Holmes]

WOW -- a fascinating discussion to say the least -- looks like i have
MORE reading to do on both sides of the debate - -ive read work by
some of the authors on both sides of that issue, but had not yet come
across the material suggesting an alternate explainatin -- are the
PDF's of those documents available online someplace?

Thanks to all and great discussion

TIM


On 10/19/06, Janet Chapple <jochapple at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Thank you, Lisa, for catching all of us up on the latest papers (and
> some of the not-so-latest).
>
> Janet
> -------
>
> On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Lisa Morgan wrote:
>
> > No--the first to postulate that Yellowstone was part of a hot spot
> > track was Jason Morgan (1972) in his classic paper where he compiled
> > an inventory of hot spots around the world (W.J. Morgan, 1972, Plate
> > motions and deep mantle convection: Geological Society of America
> > Memoir 132, p. 7-22). This was followed by another classic paper by
> > Armstrong, Leeman, and Malde, 1975, K-Ar dating, Quaternary and
> > Neogene volcanic rocks of the Snake River Plain, Idaho: American
> > Journal of Science, v. 275, p. 225-251.
> >
> >  I should also note that there is considerable debate as to whether
> > Yellowstone is the product of a hot spot and many prominent
> > researchers have argued it is not. Their papers include:
> >
> >  Christiansen, R.L., Foulger, G.R., Evans, J.R., 2002. Upper mantle
> > origin of the Yellowstone hotspot. GSA Bulletin 114, 1245-1256.
> >
> >  Humphreys, E.D., Dueker, K.G., Schutt, D.L., Smith, R.B., 2000.
> > Beneath Yellowstone: Evaluating plume and nonplume models using
> > teleseismic images of the upper Mantle. GSA Today, 10, p. 1-6.
> >
> >  I suggested Pierce and Morgan, 1990, 1992 as a reference in that it
> > contains a good discussion of the problem and the pros and cons of a
> > hot spot origin for the Snake River Plain--Yellowstone volcanic
> > province.
> >
> >  A couple other excellent papers on this subject are:
> >
> >  Anders, M.H., Geissman, J.W., Piety, L.A., Sullivan, J.T., 1989.
> > Parabolic distribution of circum-eastern Snake River Plain seismicity
> > and latest Quaternary faulting: Migratory pattern and association
> > with the Yellowstone hotspot. Journal of Geophysical Research 94,
> > 1589-1621.
> >
> >  Camp, V.E., 1995. Mid-Miocene propagation of the Yellowstone mantle
> > plume head beneath the Columbia River Basalt source region. Geology
> > 23, 435-438.
> >
> >
> >  At 06:33 PM 10/17/2006, Randall Marrett wrote:
> >> I believe the first paper was by Bob Smith at Univ Utah:
> >>
> >>  Smith, R.B., Shuey, R.T., Freidline, R.O., Otis, R.M., and Alley,
> >> L.B., 1974, Yellowstone Hot Spot: New Magnetic and Seismic Evidence:
> >> Geology, v. 2, n. 9, p. 451-455.
> >>
> >>
> >>  At 9:49 PM -0700 10/15/06, Meg Justus wrote:
> >>> Does anyone have a good source on the history of the Yellowstone Hot
> >>> Spot? Actually, not of the hot spot itself, but of how it got
> >>> figured out? Especially when it became an accepted piece of
> >>> knowledge? And when it was disseminated and how widely?
> >>>
> >>>  I've checked what I've got, but I can't find anything on the
> >>> subject.
> >>>
> >>>  Thanks!
> >>>
> >>>  Meg Justus
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>
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